Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Google Scalability Conference Trip Report: MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets

More details (than I've seen so far) on the Google architecture. If I'm doing my math right, the data given here tells us that Google has around 25 exa(10^18)bytes.

(architecture, bigtable, gfs, google, mapreduce, scaling)

Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | RESTify DayTrader

(architecture, design, http, programming, rest, webservices)

Wikipedia: Site internals, configuration, code examples and management issues (PDF)

Loads of information about the tech behind Wikipedia. I've become convinced that the only sane way to design scalable systems is by studying the trials and tribulations of others.

(architecture, for:jdunck, hardware, infrastructure, lighttpd, memcached, mysql, performance, scaling, sysadmin, via:simonw, web, webdev, wikipedia)